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This user is a translator from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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This user is a translator and proofreader from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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Campaign poster for the 1917 Łódź City Council election

... that socialists received 31 percent of the vote in the 1917 Łódź City Council election (campaign poster pictured), but the system implemented by the German occupying authorities only gave them 8 percent of the seats?
... that Samuel Lander founded the Williamston Female College in an abandoned hotel?
... that Leon Trotsky frequented a Jewish dairy restaurant in the Bronx but refused to tip, and the waiters retaliated by spilling hot soup on him?
... that Roger Farmer, the first NFL player from Barbados, reached the league after playing for schools that a newspaper described as having "terrible records"?
... that a recurrent famine has haunted Madagascar's southern regions since the 1930s?
... that Georgina Sutton was the first woman to be appointed the chief pilot of an Australian airline?
... that the ballot summary for 2024 Ohio Issue 1 was a flashpoint for legal action?
... that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva served the Bolshoi Ballet and its school for over 70 years?
... that Eternity in Flames, now commonly shown in Chinese schools, was banned during the Cultural Revolution?

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The European bison (Bison bonasus), also known as the wisent, is a mammal in the family Bovidae, one of two extant species of bison. Having been hunted to extinction in the wild by the early 20th centry, the European bison was reintroduced to the wild in various European countries by the 2010s, following captive breeding programmes. It is the heaviest wild land animal in Europe, and individuals in the past may have been even larger than their modern-day descendants. The largest bulls of the species have a mass of up to 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb). The European bison is a herd animal, which lives in both mixed and solely male groups. Mixed groups consist of adult females, calves, young aged two to three years, and young adult bulls. A typical herd numbers around eight to thirteen animals on average. This male European bison was photographed in the Białowieża Forest, Poland.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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